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- This whole sequence is because is because I forgot
my mono-pod in the car, so now we can start
the apartment tour, let's do it.
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Hey everyone it's me Hallease endeavoring to persevere
as always if you're new here I make videos about
my chaotic good life subscribe, follow, social media,
so on and so forth.
So I really love the apartment complex
that we live in right now
because it's in a really great location.
It's close to down town, it's close to the river walk.
Anything you really want to do here in San Antonio
you're right in the thick of it, it's great.
But the unit we were in before, that I gave y'all
a tour of last year, worked out really well
because of where we just needed to be in our lives.
But it was a little cramped and also just a little sad.
It didn't get good light at all
and it just made it feel like you were in a prison
especially since this complex is really into
the whole industrial look.
So there's a lotta concrete everywhere.
This new unit I like it because
even though it's actually not much bigger
than our old unit at all.
It feels a lot more open and airy because there's just
more windows so I wanted to let y'all check it out
and also see if y'all could help me out with a few things
that I'm still trying to figure out
in regards to decorating.
I think my hair's falling y'all,
I think my hair officially fell out.
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Okay, hair fell down let's fix that.
Like I was saying I really enjoy this apartment a lot
because it was so much more natural light
and it just allows for me to be able to film myself
way more easily, before at the other apartment
I had to use all of my light panels.
But here I can just rely more on the ambient light
of the space and then just use a single light panel
or two to sort of balance out everything
and make sure that I'm getting light more directional
when I need it, so for example, right now I am just using
the ambient light of this apartment and one LED light panel
behind me I like to light myself with as soft a light
as possible I feel like that's way more flattering
on me, I really like the way I look
when I'm lit as softly and as naturally as possible.
So when you first walk in to the apartment,
you kinda are in this sort of I'm calling it
a hybrid set your stuff down kinda area
you know what I'm saying?
I have this really big sort of storage grating thing
I have since split it into two
and now one side of the storage grating lives right next
to the front window of the door,
and it's kind of the junky spot of the apartment,
not gonna lie we put our shoes over there.
Dakota our dog's leash, and her tennis balls to fetch with
are over there, you know those random things
you just kinda need when you're in a space
like tape and glue.
Make it a little bit better I've added a couple of plants
that I'm not quite sure where I want to put yet
in the apartment, mostly again because there's
a really nice window over here that can give the plants
a lot of great light throughout the day
and then also by the front door,
we have just a really simple little stand
with a drawer in it and a simple lamp with cameras.
Again as y'all know I have cameras everywhere.
I'm even wearing camera socks, so cameras are a theme
throughout any space that I live in
just because I love filmmaking and I love cameras.
For me having an apartment I know I've watched a lot
of apartment tours or home tours before here
on this platform and I notice that a lot of them
are super pristine and very pretty
and all of that usually they have a central color theme
throughout them and so on and so forth.
But I've found that my personal style is a little Kitschy
I'm a little knick knacky if you will.
I like knick knack pattywacks I wanted to be very obvious
that I live here you know?
I want it to be very obvious that Mr. Hallease lives here
so that's why there's a lot of things
that interest us both.
This front area I'm still kind of debating on if I wanna
switch out this grating and have it be just a nicer grating
of some kind or if I wanna even put one
of Dakota's beads here so that way she can see outside.
If any of y'all have any good ideas for a dog bed storage
hybrid situation let me know.
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Now on to the kitchen,
this is definitely Mr. Hallease's domain he actually
enjoys cooking you know it brings him joy
if you will so he's the one that is in here the most.
I have this really long cement wall that I need
to figure out what I'm going to do with.
I have a lot of pictures that I haven't hung up yet.
Because this unit compared to the other one has way more
concrete but I'm trying to find nails
that will actually go into this concrete wall
and not be too epic to remove
for when we leave eventually.
One thing I am thinking about doing is switching out
our table that we use to hold all of our pots and pans.
I really like it a lot but in this space it doesn't
really feel like a good size island
and I want to actually go up to the larger size
for him so that way he has a lot more prep space.
I feel like this one's just a smidge too small now
compared to dimensionally, what the space feels like
it should have, and our IKEA table is now always
completely open whereas before it was you know we would only
use one half this space is big enough
and spacious enough to where we can actually have
the whole table open all the time which is delightful.
Now like I said knick knacks I like them,
we've got this random little oh, and oh he's been with us
our entire marriage and as you can see is slowly
falling apart, I'm just gonna hide that.
So many of y'all every time we do a StumbleWell Podcast
so many of y'all are always like
where did you get these mugs?
I got them from a goodwill store, a thrifting store
and they were originally a prop in a video
that I was doing for a company.
A client that I used to work with.
This designer, I don't know his,
I can't pronounce the name
on the back but hopefully this is in focus,
who knows who knows?
Focus Sony I hope you can.
One thing I will say too.
If you're the type of person who is not good
at keeping plants alive, air plants are amazing.
all you have to do is just spray them with water once a week
put them next to a bright open window
and they will thrive.
We do the whole linen thing now.
To try to not use too many napkins
and not make too much waste, you know we do what we can.
Are we stopping the world from getting warmer?
No but we're not using napkins and I'll take that as a win.
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Hey, so this is the living area,
and that's what I really love about this unit
is that it actually curves around into the living room
and it feels like a true living room
separate from the kitchen and dining.
Without being quarantined off if you will.
Nothing much has really changed with this living room
in regards to what y'all have already seen
that I have, but I did buy a few more new pieces
of furniture mostly for my desk area.
Where I am now working.
So before our unit wasn't big enough for me
to have a designated area to put a desk
and to work from home.
I usually just sat at the kitchen table basically,
if I did work from home for the day.
It was okay I mean it got the job done
which was all you need sometimes in the end.
But here there's this designated nook in the corner
that's great for having a desk
and so if you watch me on Instagram
then you've already seen my desk nook
and my desk chair that I got from Office Depot
and me talking about how I sleep on office chairs
in Office Depot, this little blue little folder
that I got is from Ross, bought it for a smooth $20
Tuesday Morning for my little armoire that holds
some of my gear for doing the StumbleWell Podcast
as well as my lenses and some of my other cameras
as well, and then Tuesday Morning for the win again
for this little ottoman that we use
that actually converts to a full sort of soft footrest
I guess but then you can take the top off
and flip it around and it can act as a tray
to put things on top of as well.
The rug that we got is actually from Ruggable!
I gave in to Instagram ads just like the rest of y'all
and I kept seeing those ads for Ruggable because
you could just throw it in the washer or whatever.
I was like all right fine I'll buy one.
If you're interested in me doing a full desk tour
let me know, my desk is pretty basic,
it's not that amazing but if you're interested,
let me know I still need to figure out how
I want to store, do storage on the bottom.
For now it's just some boxes under there
and some Tenba carry cases and stuff but I need to,
it's like almost there you know what I'm saying?
For now it's functional it works it's a desk.
But I do wanna figure out how to make it look spiffy
since it is part of the living room
and I don't want it to look like oh
what a lovely living room and then a junk corner you know?
You don't want that to happen, so still figuring that out.
Now one thing I will say that is kinda weird
about this apartment is that storage is at a premium.
There are not many closets here at all.
So in the bathroom I think this is technically
supposed to be a linen closet but we have combined it
to be linen slash storage as you can see,
our suitcases are up top.
This isn't the best setup especially considering
we're in a bathroom right now.
But for now it's what we're gonna do.
So, but the bathroom's a bathroom.
I don't know.
Now the bedroom as well isn't really something
to write home about at all.
I feel like most people when you're designing a space
you're more focused on the living room, dining room,
kitchen and not necessarily bedroom because
you don't actually spend that much time in here.
You usually just change in here, sleep in here,
have some fun in here, ehh so the bedroom's
pretty basic, also the bedroom again, no closet.
What?
To my right is just the laundry slash closet hybrid thing
that's mostly being used to store my gear right now
and laundry stuff so instead of having most of our clothes
in this section of the wall that you could call a closet.
We have everything on these two racks,
a his rack and a her rack I found them on Amazon
for $30 each and if y'all know how to make a rack look sexy
let me know because they're getting the job done.
They're very practical but you know when you see racks
online it's just like they put five articles
of clothing on the rack so it just looks very
minimalist and designed well and it's just like bruh
I'm using the rack as a rack okay.
It's going to hold a lot of stuff.
I really want to get a headboard for this bed.
I feel like that'll just liven up the room
a lot more if there's just some sort of headboard
situation, but for now I got some affordable pillowcases
just to again match our bedspread
and a little accent pillow.
You know what I'm saying?
Just a little something something to spice it up,
you know what I'm saying?
That is pretty much the apartment tour.
Again let me know in the comments below
if you have any ideas on how
to drill into these concrete walls without needing
industrial tools or how to have some nice storage
under your desk without it looking too junky you know?
Let me know in the comments below.
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